How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics /

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-st...

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Main Author: Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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